Event Overview

Symposium 19 Oct

For the first day of the program (19 Oct) , there will be a symposium where major aspects of the cryoEM field will be covered. The symposium will be open for the local community and the workshop participants. Leading researchers in the cryoEM field will highlight state-of-the-art developments in cryoEM SPA, tomography, molecular modelling, showcasing outstanding recent applications. There will be a poster session for registered participants and selected poster presenters will get the opportunity for a 10min talk during the last session of the symposium. “The EMBO Keynote Lecture” will be held by Werner Kühlbrandt.

Practicals 20-23 Oct

The course is aimed at PhDs, PostDocs as well as young faculty members and applicants from industry new to the field of cryoEM. A series of morning lectures will teach the necessary basic theoretical principles and practical aspects for macro molecular structure determination by cryo EM. The afternoon sessions will provide in-depth hands-on practice on single particle analysis, subtomogram averaging and molecular modelling into cryoEM maps. The practicals will cover the software packages SPHIRE, pyTOM, Coot/REFMAC and PHENIX.

Note on the Coronavirus situation: A prediction about a possible influence of Corona on our event in ~6 months is of course not possible at the moment. The situation will be evaluated few months before the event and if necessary (hopefully not) the course will be postponed; slots will be reserved for successfully registered participants. The well-being of our participants will be of course our priority

Venue

The cryoEM school will be held at the University of Crete, City of Heraklion, Greece. Heraklion is the capital of Crete and one of the most vibrant, historic and fascinating Mediterranean Cities.